ext_37295 ([identity profile] poetic-pixie-13.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sabotabby 2012-07-18 01:50 am (UTC)

You know I grew up in and still live in Malvern, a priority neighbourhood. I feel like in the past few years there really has been a sense of community growing. Just, ugh. I don't want to think about how many kids I went to elementary with are dead. I don't even know because when a black boy is shot dead he isn't turned into a martyr by the media, the victim of the violence and poverty he grew up. That's saved for pretty white girls like Jane Creba.

To be quite honest when I heard about this I didn't blink. It's heartbreaking to lose anyone, especially our kids. But the shooting itself... I've become numb to the idea of shootings out in the open like that. I just always prey that no one has to die. Sometimes at least that happens.

ETA @CP24: BREAKING: One man is dead following a shooting in the Eglinton Avenue West and Emmett Avenue area, Toronto police have confirmed.

Motherfucking goddamned fucking fuck asdlkjhflskadhiateuw jkashdfkjahthkwejhn fkja

Fuck everyone. Fuck the police who enable this shit. Fuck the mayor who'd rather see us kill ourselves one by one. Fuck city council who does jack shit. Fuck Torontonians who just ignore our dead because they don't live in our zip code. Fuck this racist, classist, sexist, bullshit fucked up fucking system that makes us do their fucking dirty work while they make money off the bodies of our children and shove us into the dirt while saying it's our own fucking fault for being there.

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